Oh, how very English!

Saturday saw the Chap Olympiad take over Bedford Square Gardens in London. That's Chap, not chap, by the way! The Chaps tell us that "we live in a world where children are huge, inelegant hooded creatures lurk on street corners..." Approximately one hundred chaps partook in the event, not only hopeful of winning the gold, silver or bronze cravat, but also the "Chap Olympic ideal: not so much swifter, higher, stronger, as slower, lower, easy on the tonic". Fops (and wannabes) dressed in tweed and monocles, carrying their canes with a pipe drooping from the corner of their mouth are a sight for sore eyes. Yet another spectacle I would recommend to anyone visiting mid-July.